I'd have put some witty Japanese caption in this image but I haven't installed Japanese Language Support on my laptop. Sadface.
Shock, horror and awe. If you’re a Final Fantasy fan and an Xbox 360 owner, you’re probably eagerly awaiting the release of, um, Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, if you’re a Final Fantasy fan, an Xbox 360 owner and a huge Japanophile, you’re going to be in for a nasty shock.
Find out why after the jump…
Yoshinori Kitase, FF XIII‘s producer, dropped a bomb on IGN when he revealed that the 360 edition of the game would be entirely Japanophile-unfriendly and would ship with English-language voice track only, simply because the DVDs the 360 uses wouldn’t be big enough to hold the Japanese language tracks.
Shock, horror and awe. Again. Let the man speak for himself:
“Obviously, when we talk about XIII it’s for PS3 and Xbox – with PS3 being on Blu-ray there would be enough memory, but on Xbox probably not.”
Now, to most of you, this will not be that big a deal at all. Big whoop, no Japanese audio track, you were going to play it in English anyway.
The thing is, for every 100 nonplussed gamers there’s an angry anime nerd who can’t stand having a compulsory English audio track in their Japanese RPG. We’re talking the ones who watch Japanese anime with subtitles rather than a dubbed voice track, and will rain the hate on Square Enix for dubbing a totally lame-ass audio track over the Japanese lip-syncing.
Of course, there will be some other, probably more noticeable differences between the PS3 and the 360 versions of Final Fantasy XIII; differences in the graphics, frame-rate, audio compression, that sort of thing.
But to those angry, angry 360-owning anime nerds, they’ll all pale in significance when compared to the lack of a Japanese voice track.
Hell, Sony might even sell a PS3 or two out of this! But no more than that. There aren’t that many angry anime nerds out there.
Source: CVG
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Actually, I’d prefer the original language, no matter what that language may be. However, I don’t think I’m going to buy FFXIII so well. Well… Guess it doesn’t matter to me.
I think that you are under estimating the amount of people who will be upset. I would put it at almost a 3:1 ratio of people who won’t care, and not 100:1. Most people who actually are into anime cannot stand dubbed (and if you do you don’t like anime). While that still isn’t the majority that is a selling point of the game.
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3 things
1: Final Fantasy has been around longer than ‘Anime’ has been a buzz word. Or even ‘Japanimation’ for that matter. Subsequently Final Fantasy fans have endured English localizations a lot longer than anything else being available.
2. Final Fantasy has never been localized with a Japanese voice over and it’s never stopped the whiny anime geeks from buying it en masse.
3. The majority of FFXIII purchasers will get the Japanese version regardless of SE’s intent.
3:1 are you serious! I know for every one of me there is always 2 other kids with golden pointy hair shouting kamehameha, talking with their eyes closed, and all the while tossing pokemon at me trying to battle for badges. If anything the ratio should have been 200:1 because any gamer who really cares will do like the other poster said and just utilize a japanese copy, system etc.
I don’t care about final fantasy at all, but I actually do like original language in a game a lot. It isn’t absolutely vital (unless the voice acting sucks), but it is nice to have/
I tried watching Advent Children in Japanese with subtitles once and missed half the damn film because of it. That’s a circumstance where the action on-screen was far more important than reading sodding subtitles. So I’m a big supporter of English dubs (as long as they don’t suck TOO much).
Actually, I think it’s a nice added feature and at least if the English Voice acting is dire, then I’ve got an alternative. It’s not really needed, and I can live without it, but it would be nice to avoid another Final Fantasy X from happening again (need I say more than “HA HA HA HA”?).
rawrs angry jap nerd = me but im not taht angry.. like u said at the end ill prolly buy a ps3 lol was thinking of getting one fora while now
Well, FF12 had some great english dubs. There’s still hope.
But wait. on the other side of the coin are you implying the PS3 version will have both tracks?! oh, let me kiss you PS3!!~
The PS3 may well have both tracks, yes!
I’M CAPTAIN BASCH.
I’ll only buy a ps3 if there are noticably annoying graphics/audio/framerate/etc on the 360, but I don’t really mind not having a japanese option. (But I won’t buy a ps3 until it costs less than what I paid for my 360 because I’m NOT going to pay more for something I’ll enjoy less)